Content Warning: Tour de France spoiler
Another day where a crowd favorite makes good!
Chapeau Campenaerts! I still don't understand how he rides without eye protection. š³
"They discuss Stillerās upcoming project to make a film about American cycling superstar Greg LeMond. Stiller was motivated by the 2014 documentary about LeMond, Slaying the Badger, to create his own film. The story will explore LeMondās buildup to his first Tour de France victory in 1986. Particularly, how he ended up battling teammate Bernard Hinault...
"Rowe jokes that he and G are about to retire, so if Stiller needs any actors, theyāre game."
aol.com/hollywood-ben-stiller-takes-challenge-134100000.html
It's cloudy today in north TX, a miracle in summer. It's still 94Ā° outside but it doesn't feel terrible, and the house temp dramatically improves. Which means I'm in a constant fight with the all-knowing, demanding Nest thermostat over 1Ā°
"Iām sorry, Dave. Iām afraid I canāt do that."
Funny comments on this innocent question win the internet today. The "wrong answers only" thread is gold as well.
reddit.com/r/bicycling/comments/1e4r7wj/whats_the_box_on_the_back_of_the_tour_de_france/
"An empire that no longer lives, and cannot live, strikes, kills in the name of its impossible return."
daniel.industries/2022/12/11/an-empire-that-no-longer-lives-kills/
It's sad that when I discover a new app that does provide value, but it's clearly a SPA in React or similar, I know that sooner or later it will degrade with all the bugs all these apps seem to have. Forms resetting while typing into them, after modifying one value a few seconds ago that autosaved. Using the back button and getting shoved to the top of a long result set that I had previously scrolled down and waited for each "page" to load.* Staring at throbbing grey squares for 10 seconds...
UX patterns that feel like an improvement to a developer on localhost with a dev data set, like a drawer instead of a new page, but in the real world that drawer and its data take longer to render than a new page.
And of course we let all the QA testers go because software is a cost center. This new feature idea is what's valuable, if only I didn't need all these people to actually build and -- oh, God, are you kidding me? -- maintain it...
Notion and Monarch Money are the latest two where I've tried to make it work, I've tried to believe they'll devote some resources to what's important to their users, I've succumbed to sunk cost fallacy 100 times, but it's time to go back to text files and spreadsheets. Is VisiCalc still maintained?
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Surprisingly got a PR on one of my favorite local Strava segments this morning. Wasn't planning on trying, it was a last second decision to put in the effort. But I've been riding this high all day. Previous PR on this segment was 2018 at the latest. Might have been 2016. I'd have to re-up my Strava subscription to find out but I'm not that serious and unemployed so no unnecessary šø right now.
